Tech for Climate
at Oktoberfest
A private afternoon in the fully reserved Metzger Stubn Oktoberfest tent — for the family offices, funds of funds, private investors, and corporates behind climate deep tech, joined by a few hand-picked VCs and founders. Thursday, 24 September 2026 · 11:00–17:00 — come for an hour or stay for the afternoon.
Every September, Munich fills with founders and global capital — for Oktoberfest, PE Insights, and Bits & Pretzels. On the 24th, we’ve reserved the entire Metzger Stubn — a traditional Oktoberfest tent — for an afternoon with the capital behind climate deep tech, and a few of the best people building it.
By invitation only, from 11:00 to 17:00, with food and drinks served throughout. A room kept small on purpose, so every conversation is with someone worth meeting. There is no stage and no panel — but the afternoon does have a shape, so you can come for the part that matters to you and leave when you like. Two anchored conversations, and the rest of the day is yours.
Co-hosted by Tech for Impact & UnternehmerTUM
The afternoon is hosted by Seira Yun of the Tech for Impact Summit together with Simon Herzog of UnternehmerTUM, the center for innovation and business creation at the Technical University of Munich.
Seira Yun
Founder, Tech for Impact Summit
Tech for Impact Summit
Simon Herzog
Head of Mobility Projects, UnternehmerTUM
Consulate-General of Japan in Munich
在ミュンヘン日本国総領事館
A room built for the allocators
Solving climate means scaling hard technology — and hard technology needs patient capital: the family offices, funds of funds, private investors, and corporates who anchor the funds and companies doing the work. Yet the people allocating that capital rarely get unhurried time with each other — or with the best managers and founders in the field. A conference fills a hall; it doesn’t build a relationship.
So we’re building the room that’s missing. One full afternoon, a small group chosen by hand — primarily LPs, joined by a few selected VCs and climate deep-tech founders. No stage, no pitch clock — just the people who can move capital against the climate crisis, getting to know each other well enough to actually work together.
Primarily LPs — with a few selected VCs and founders
The room is built around the capital side: family offices, funds of funds, private investors, and corporates — with a strong Japanese corporate presence. A small, hand-picked group of VCs and founders completes it.
Japanese corporates will be present. Tech for Impact grew out of Tokyo, and we're bringing our Japanese network to Munich — corporate venture and strategy leaders from major Japanese corporates active in climate and deep tech. For funds and founders, it's a rare chance to meet Japan's corporate capital in one afternoon; for the corporates, a direct line into Europe's climate ecosystem.
Family offices
Single- and multi-family offices allocating to climate and frontier technology.
Funds of funds
Institutional and private FoFs building exposure to climate venture.
HNWIs & angels
Private investors and operator-angels active in climate and deep tech.
Corporates & strategics
Corporate venture and strategy leaders scouting climate innovation — including Japanese companies invited through the Consulate-General’s network.
Select VCs
A small number of hand-picked climate and deep-tech fund managers.
Select founders
A few exceptional founders building hard climate technology — energy, industry, materials, carbon, and adaptation.
Come for an hour, or stay for the day
It is a long afternoon by design, but nobody is expected to stay for all of it. Two conversations are anchored to a time so you can plan around them.
Tent opens
Arrive when you like. Bavarian lunch and drinks served throughout, live Stubn music playing, and the hosts are at the door.
Welcome
The music stops and the room gathers. A short, standing welcome from the hosts: the house rules, and how the next hour works. No stage, no ceremony.
Strategy dialogues
The closed-door hour for allocators. Small tables, each anchored on one question and led by a peer, under the Chatham House rule. Nothing is written up and nothing is read out afterwards. In parallel, VCs and founders hold their own tables on their own questions. The music stays off for the whole hour, so the quietest voice at a table is still the one you can hear.
Japan & the energy transition
Two chairs on the tent floor, two microphones, twenty minutes. Japan has made its decarbonisation binding, and its industrial buyers are deciding what to procure at scale. What turns that ambition into a first order for a European climate supplier? The tent falls quiet again for it. A second short conversation may follow.
Open table
The music comes back up and the rest of the afternoon is unstructured. The hosts and a few briefed connectors make introductions across the tables, until 17:00.
Closing toast
Gratitude only, no summary — then one last number from the band.
One question per table
Each table is led by a peer and carries a single question. Pick yours on arrival; if you come late, a steward will seat you.
DPI before deployment
How do climate portfolios get liquid again?
Underwriting a Fund I
First tickets into emerging managers: who deserves to exist in 2026?
Co-investing without regrets
What makes you say yes alongside a fund, and what have you learned the hard way?
Powering AI
The data-centre power wall as a climate allocation.
Japan in the portfolio
How do you invest into, and with, Japan’s energy transition?
The corporate balance sheet
Purchase orders: what are corporates actually buying?
What actually worked
Climate portfolios, ten years in: what has paid, and what quietly hasn’t?
The Rhine test
Underwriting physical resilience: adaptation as industrial security.
The other side of the table
What LPs will never tell you at a conference.
Who buys these companies?
Exits for climate deep tech: mapping the real acquirers.
What this room is not
During this week in Munich, everyone with capital is being sold to. This afternoon is deliberately the opposite, and we hold guests to it.
Nobody is raising in this room
No pitching to investors, no decks, no soliciting. Founders are here to be met, not to sell. If a conversation deserves a follow-up, it happens after the tent.
Bring your partner
Oktoberfest is not a conference. Every guest is welcome to bring their spouse or partner.
No badges, no booths, no press
Nothing is recorded, nothing is broadcast, and there is no sponsor signage anywhere in the tent.
Invitation only
Express interest below. We read every request and send invitations directly to the guests we select.
Express interest
Tell us who you are. It takes a minute.
We review
Every request is read personally — the room is curated.
Personal invitation
Selected guests receive a direct invitation with the details.
Tell us who you are
Seats are limited and the room is curated. If you’d like to be there, let us know.
Want to help run the room instead? Volunteer with us.
Tech for Climate is part of Tech for Impact — growing from a single annual summit in Tokyo into a year-round series of gatherings around the world, bringing technology and capital together against the climate crisis. Tech for Impact has convened leaders including Audrey Tang, Taro Kono, Takuya Hirai, Charles Hoskinson, and Kathy Matsui.